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  2. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia

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    Newton's tract De motu corporum in gyrum, which he sent to Halley in late 1684, derived what is now known as the three laws of Kepler, assuming an inverse square law of force, and generalised the result to conic sections. It also extended the methodology by adding the solution of a problem on the motion of a body through a resisting medium.

  3. George Gamow - Wikipedia

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    George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

  4. Timeline of binary prefixes - Wikipedia

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    The 32K store started mass production in 1956; it is the standard now for large machines and at least 200 machines of the size (or its equivalent in the character addressable machines) are in existence today (and at least 100 were in existence in mid-1959).

  5. A Brief History of Time - Wikipedia

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    However, Newton's laws implied that there is no such thing as absolute state of rest or absolute space as believed by Aristotle: whether an object is 'at rest' or 'in motion' depends on the inertial frame of reference of the observer. Hawking then describes Aristotle and Newton's belief in absolute time, i.e. time can be measured accurately ...

  6. Jane Fonda - Wikipedia

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    After a 15 year hiatus, she returned to acting in Monster-in-Law (2005), Youth (2015), and Our Souls at Night (2017). On stage, Fonda made her Broadway debut in the play There Was a Little Girl (1960), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play .

  7. The Dark Knight - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, from a screenplay co-written with his brother Jonathan. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman , it is the sequel to Batman Begins (2005), and the second installment in The Dark Knight trilogy .

  8. Boston - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Globe also releases a teen publication to the city's public high schools, called Teens in Print or T.i.P., which is written by the city's teens and delivered quarterly within the school year. [302] The Improper Bostonian, a glossy lifestyle magazine, was published from 1991 through April 2019.